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Meet Your Neighbor: Jack Goodman

By Mort Mazor 35th Infantry Division participating in combat in Germany, Court culminating in a career that covered 26 years until
Belgium and Holland, earning him three Battle Stars. his retirement.
The first thing Jack married Rae when he was 21. They had three sons The couple was married 65 years when Rae passed.
you notice about and grew to five grandsons and two greats. Tragically the “As my boys and grandsons were growing up I taught
99 year old Jack couple lost their first born son. them to be honest and keep out of trouble,” said Jack.
Goodman is his full Returning to civilian life after the war, Jack’s priority “That was most important to me.”
head of handsome was supporting his family which included his widowed
silver hair—unusual mother in law. Besides his day job at the machine shop Mort Mazor and his wife Lucille were West Delray
for a gent his age. where the shop now made automotive parts, he took a residents for 27 years prior to relocating to Stratford Court,
Jack was born second job working at the Queens Post Office at night, Boca Raton, Oct. 7, 2014. They celebrated their 74th wedding
in the Williamsburg which he did for fourteen years. And he also worked a anniversary March 20, 2019.
section of Brooklyn, third job Saturday’s at Aqueduct and Belmont race tracks Since 2008 he has written over 500 articles for the weekly
N. Y. January 5, behind the cage selling betting tickets. sections of the Sun-Sentinel. Current topics cover senior’s
1920. Eventually Jack became a court officer working in outstanding achievements, wellness, and finance.
After graduating the judicial system in Brooklyn and New York City He retired in 2018 from teaching a weekly course in
from the noted where he wore a uniform and carried a gun, charged Creative Writing began in 2002. 
Brooklyn trade with maintaining order at trials. He was then promoted
school, Haaren H. to Associate Court Clerk at the New York State Supreme
S. as a machinist, he worked daytime in a factory during
the early days of World War II making airplane parts,
among them brass fittings for flexible metal hoses used
in machine guns. Board Of Directors
“My boss got orders for 100 pieces. I was told to make
220 fittings. I suggested he let me make 1,000 fittings to April 2019 – April 2020 Officers/Executive Committee
keep in reserve inventory. This would reduce the cost of District 5 Dan Gabrielle (La Corniche)
each unit. He said okay and I produced the larger quantity. Chairman and President Barry J. Haberman Esplanada, Caravelle, Palomar, La Corniche,
Steve Retzer
Vice Chair
By my not having to stop and reset machines for small Vice President Gail Ehrlich and El Dorado
runs at a higher cost per unit, we increased our profit on 2nd Vice President Jim Collins District 6 Marvin Lazarowitz (Villa Stel)
this part and enabled us to fill future orders more quickly Secretary Steve King Villa Flora, Montego Bay, Villa Stel, and Palladium
which was important during wartime.” Treasurer Harvey Kaplan District 7 Joyce Britt (Villa Sonrisa)
From 1944 to 1945 Jack served in the U. S. Army’s The Plum/Cortina and Villa Sonrisa
District Directors District 8 Len Kagan (Costa del Sol)
District 1 Alvaro Fernandez Caballero (Encantada) Costa del Sol and Costa Brava
Encantada, Valencia and The Palms District 9 Robin Gliboff (Edgewater)
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